The band’s new album ‘Wilder Mind’ comes out next week (May 4), following on from 2009’s ‘Sigh No More’ and 2012’s ‘Babel’. It was recorded at Air Studios, London and produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Haim, Florence + The Machine). A number of the new songs were written at Aaron Dessner of The National’s studios in Brooklyn, New York and see the band moving into more traditional rock territory and not using the banjo.

Ahead of their LP release, the fourpiece performed a live session at London’s Maida Vale studios, opting for a cover of Shura’s ‘2Shy’. You can watch that performance beneath.

Speaking to NME recently, frontman Marcus Mumford admitted that he regrets naming his band Mumford & Sons and even considered changing the moniker. Mumford said: “I definitely regret the band name. If I’d known it was going to go this way I would have wanted to call it anything other than my last name. It’s a ball-ache. We thought about changing it but it’s a bit late now.”